About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

We are building the next generation of the Airwallex core banking platform. The role spans the full SDLC from requirements capture, systems design, implementation, testing and operational support.

What you’ll do

Our new Senior Backend Engineer will have a unique opportunity to lead the design and implementation of a new lending platform to power our lending capabilities – further unlocking a global revenue generation opportunity. 

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation & delivery across our lending platform to support the launch and scale up our embedded finance & credit cards products

• Collaborate with a talented team of engineers to conduct architectural reviews, ensuring the highest quality and scalability of our solutions

• Partner with the broader lending team to optimize our processes for productivity & quality

Who you are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration/delivery and quality engineering

• Desire to own an idea from inception through to implementation

• A commitment to producing high quality and well tested solutions

• Strong computer science fundamentals/JVM based programming. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Kotlin

• Systems design experience

• Experience working with high throughput / low latency / HA distributed systems

• Experience in API design best practices

• Familiar with HTTP, TCP / IP protocol and REST specifications

• Mastery of Gradle / Maven or other build tools

• Familiar with the use of Docker cluster / Kubernetes

• Fluent English communication skills 

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Kotlin / Scala;

• Asynchronous ‘reactive’ programming (RxJava, Akka, Spring Reactor, Vert.x);

• Kafka event streams;

• GCP, Alicloud or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc) and Kubernetes exposure;

• Operational tooling such as Splunk, New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.